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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Prepare to get served.

2009 · 1h 30m · PG Animation, Comedy, Family
Directed by Phil Lord , Christopher Miller

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Overview

Inventor Flint Lockwood creates a machine that makes clouds rain food, enabling the down-and-out citizens of Chewandswallow to feed themselves. But when the falling food reaches gargantuan proportions, Flint must scramble to avert disaster. Can he regain control of the machine and put an end to the wild weather before the town is destroyed?

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All reviews
85%
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Rotten

Determined to have their cake and eat it too, writer-directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller first invite us to revel in ice cream mountains and nacho cheese fountains, then clobber us with ham-handed nutritional moralism.

Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader
Fresh

So what could be better than an endless supply of jellybeans and ice cream? Only a multiplex permanently stocked with smart, sweetly silly family films like this one.

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News
Rotten

It takes an iron stomach to watch this stuff and not feel nauseated.

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle
Rotten

No comedy should come bogged down with so many Important Life Lessons.

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
Fresh

Food has never been funnier than it is in the spirited, animated family film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

Tom Long, Detroit News

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